The world is an imperfect place, we are imperfect people, and all those perfect images we are fed are illusions that never truly bring people happiness.

This is the belief lying at the heart of Anj Keate and Dean Ellery's new exhibition It Takes All Kinds To Make A World, which opens at The Zeus Gallery on 11th Avenue this Friday (December 4).

Artists Dean Ellery and Anj Keate's exhibition ‘It Takes All Kinds To Make A World' opens at The Zeus Gallery this Friday. Photo: Supplied

The husband-and-wife duo have created more than 120 unique handmade sculptures for the exhibition which looks at life as it is, 'not as the marketing world wants us to think things are like”.

Dean says in the modern world we are swamped with a relentless barrage of products, imagery and expectations to be 'rich, beautiful and perfect”.

'We wanted to bring characters to life which we feel are a cross section of the ‘normalness of life,” he explains.

'These characters – they're not famous but they are beautiful, they're not wealthy but they are rich. They don't live in the ‘right' places, but they do live.

'They're worthy, of being rendered in clay, painted and drawn and worthy of being loved.”

More than 120 handmade sculpture will appear in the upcoming ‘It Takes All Kinds To Make A World' Photo: Supplied.

Some of the pieces featured in the exhibition are based from characters in oil paintings previously created by Anj, while Dean adds he had no paintings to plunder so rummaged around in his head instead.

'We wanted to bring some characters to life that we feel are a cross section of the ‘normalness of life'. Some are damaged, some look different, and that's okay – that's life.”

The It Takes All Kinds To Make A World exhibition opens at The Zeus Galley on Friday, December 4, 5-7.30pm, and runs until December 12. The Zeus Gallery is open Monday to Saturday, 10-4pm.